Brian Elias

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Brian Elias is a British composer. He studied at London’s Royal College of Music with Humphrey Searle and Bernard Stevens and privately with Elisabeth Lutyens. After five years working at a finance company in New York he returned to London to re-establish a musical career. The development of his language can be traced through his major orchestral works. The Webernesque Le Chevelure (1967) was followed twelve years later by Somnia; the intensity of L’Eylah (1983) is built upon in the exquisite Five Songs to Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya (1989) and the powerfully expressionist ballet The Judas Tree (1991), leads to the playful but dark The House that Jack Built (2001). User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Electra Mourns

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Brian Elias: Music for Strings

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The NMC Songbook

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Brian Elias: Music for Wind

Brian Elias: 5 Songs to Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya & Laments

Elias: The House That Jack Built, A Talisman & Doubles

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Piano Exams Grade 8 2009-2010 [Disc 2]

Spectrum / Spectrum 2

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L'Innominata (For Cello and Piano)

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Birds Practise Songs in Dreams: III

Prime Cuts

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NMC Songbook

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